A New Orleans firefighter killed Saturday (Aug. 26) after authorities say he was the unintended target of a shooting outside a Memphis-area nightclub had accomplished everything he was supposed to by age 37, his cousin said.
"He found somebody, they fell in love, they had kids," said Hope Howard, 46, of her younger cousin, Gregory Howard. "He just had everything going for him."
Gregory Howard grew up in the 7th Ward and graduated from Sarah T. Reed High School in 1999, his family said. He never got in trouble, he owned his home, and worked as a public servant, Hope Howard said. "He was a family man." That's partly why, she said, she's having a hard time accepting the way he was taken from her family.